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The Role of Artificial Intelligence to Create Stability

From the shaky divide of Israel and Palestine, the destabilization of the EU, to declarations of Kurdish independence and rumbles of armed poverty inside North and South Sudan, the business of establishing peace over unequal terms has created a network of ticking time-bombs ready to explode into world order. However, artificial intelligence could help to conquer some of the biggest logistical challenges that mean the difference between failed states, bankruptcy, and sustainability.

Artificial intelligence can generate news articles, write classical music composition, produce raw photos and videos, and diagnose diseases in humans and food crops. With countries fragmenting around conflicts and new border agreements, can artificial intelligence and even blockchain applications help redefine borders and execute diplomatic missions? Some apps have proven effective in the handling of everything from taxes to land titles; assessing the earth’s resources, and population attributes. Many of these could be effective in crunching data and delivering projections towards stabilizing troubled territories or strengthening collapsing states.

Meeting the Challenges of Government and Corporate Instability

These are welcome opportunities in some spaces that suffer from extreme instability also engaged in costly development projects where lowering the risks means greater access to credit and foreign direct investment. More factors than ever require consideration in settling conflicts that could benefit from more powerful computing and even-handed judgement. Also, with cutbacks in aid programs and for some countries defense budgets, more pressure is put on the efficiency of resource allocation that could mean life or death in some situations.

Keeping the peace is an expensive responsibility for the leadership if countries and even businesses. In Iraq, two of the main causes for protests and riots over the last year have been related to energy and water rationing which have overwhelmed the newly established government there. In Saudi Arabia, the kingdom has offered financial bonuses and other types of payments to suppress growing dissent. In Scotland, one of the main decisions for voters choosing to stay with the United Kingdom was the lack of confidence in its own economic initiatives. For large corporations such as the airline industry and taxi services in the US, have undergone crippling strikes disrupting trade for days or weeks at a time. Government bailouts have been required for some companies to stay in business and prevent global economic chaos. Pressure on elected officials and CEOs to do more with less may open doors to unexpected solutions using new technologies.

The Payoffs and Rewards

One of the biggest payoffs are in resource management. Resources like water, energy, waste, and communications, imports and exports, currencies, and even human capital including employee benefits can maximize efficiency improving GDP on national scales. This would enable countries and businesses to invest in new areas of growth or in underperforming parts of their economies. AI programming may also be used to evaluate a company’s performance before awarding contracts and choosing the best investment strategies for funds.

Some tasks however are better performed by humans, and the future success of AI will depend how well companies can use the technology with their human capital to achieve the best overall results as circumstances evolve and in maintaining the integrity of AI’s engineering. Many are concerned about job displacement. With that said, there is much need for development throughout the world in countries at different stages of development and opportunity continues to point to these areas as population figures continue to grow where surplus labor is always a welcome site.